Ideally you will have unique content for each blog, because search engines tend to penalize pages when they find duplicate content. Perhaps you could try localizing the articles for each dealership? At the very least I would write unique introductory paragraphs and meta descriptions for each article.

I have a question for you. I work for multiple cardealers in the Netherlands. At this moment, I work for six dealers that sell the same car brand. How would you cope with things like blogs? All six of them want the same information on there site like “Specifications of [make + model] “. Would you advice to write an article, and rewrite is, so that every dealer has unique content? or would you use a different approach?

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,
Robert van Heerde
Freelance SEO-specialist

You can find that video here: https://www.dealeron.com/blog/excellence-in-customer-service/
Check out the rest of our videos here: https://www.dealeron.com/dealerontv/

It’s important to note that if a customer has a great experience with you, that can easily turn into FREE MARKETING for your company!

https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177
https://support.google.com/business/answer/9074290

I have one issue regarding URL, I edited the old URL, but in Search Console, in the coverage section its showing Error due to 404, also showing URL in Index, I want to show my edited URL. I also deleted this URL in webmaster but still showing in the index, plz guide what can I do for removing forever.

Another Question is I have deleted my old page in Search console in Remove section, still, show in Index, how can I delete forever? Kindly Guide me.

What if car dealer X sells 3 different brands (new cars) on one fysical location. What GMB-strategy would you prefer? 3 different GMB-profiles:

– Dodge dealer X Rockville
– Chevrolet dealer X Rockville
– Toyota dealer X Rockville

Or one GMB-profile for all 3 brands?

– Dodge, Chevrolet and Toyota dealer X Rockville

Thank you for your time!

Robert van Heerde

as for adding them into the page content, it’s probably not really necessary, as they can easily use the breadcrumbs (or search filter system) if they want to “back out” to a broader category/page.

Good video. One question poped up to my mind: should child pages linking back to their parents or also to their grand-parent?
Let’s say we have the following structure:

Home page: Shoes
cat1A: men’s shoes
cat1B: women’s shoes
Page2A: men’s red shoes
Page2B: men’s blue shoes
etc

Should page 2A and 2B just link back to “men’s shoes” or also to “shoes”?

Sending you an e-mail with the recording now!

Best,
Greg

Super helpful information; however, when I try to claim these phantom listing’s they ask me to enter the address. We only have one address for the dealership and google sent us on a wild goose chase the last time we had two business listings present for the same address. So when providing the address it prompts the store we already have on google my business, and takes me to manage that page.

Is there a shortcut around this? Should I claim it as a “new” page? Look forward to hearing from you!

Our business is a automotive body shop, but we also have a separate towing + impound division. The auto body and towing + impound have separate hours, separate addresses (within the same complex) and separate entrances etc. Can we take advantage of this google update to partition our GMB listings ?

Hard to filter by location to a geographic area rather than just a city.

Most dealers list only the year and a picture. I won’t even pursue it if the dealer says “call me” when they won’t list basics like ;

Mileage
Options
Price

I chose to claim the listing and mark it closed because it does not exist – but any feedback you have would be welcome. To find the listing, search “Niello BMW Sacramento” and see that it is listed as “Located in: Thinkniello”.

Thinkniello is not a real location or a department, and I cannot make it into our Service department since Google has ranked it as the parent location for both dealerships (Land Rover Sacramento being the other dealership).

Thanks

Looking forward to get more knowledge from you.

SEO and website development/hosting are two different things. IF you’re not showing up for important keywords for your business, you’ll need to work with someone who knows SEO to help get your site more visibility (it’s a totally different task set).

Cheers!

Do you think there is any correlation between different or multiple business categories on GMB? For example, if our dealership sells new and used cars, should we be using the used cars category as a secondary one?

I’m noticing that a lot of companies that get in to the map pack for used cars +city searches do have used car dealer as one of their categories. However, I never noticed whether or not this was the case before the algo change so I don’t know if this is new.

Keep up the good work!

Best way to see if there’s a Pokestop nearby is to install the app. If you don’t see one right next to the dealership, you might be out of luck…

Do you know where can I fill the new form?

Also, do you know where can I learn where are the closest Pokestops to my dealership?

Thanks,

Boris
Marketing Manager,
East Court Ford Lincoln

Definitely! We can help with any automotive type business!

There’s no way to really look at the “pure” bounce rate – just leave it at the default setup and understand how it’s calculated, and use it as a guide – if you have one page that has a much higher number than others, then take a look at the page… but always make sure you’re paying attention to phone call volume!

What’s the best way to look at the “pure” bounce rate to compare the actions/events affecting the bounce rate?

See you in Vegas!

Anyway, did you know about this tool from SERPS.com? https://serps.com/tools/google-search-location/

Hope that helps and keep up the great work – really enjoying your blog.

if you’re serving customers nationwide, then is it just an ecommerce model? or are you a service business with actual techs who service customers at their location? Really tough to answer without more info – BUT – first check and see if a search for your biz’s keywords pull local results. If so, you’ve got to go with the silo approach – but that’s not going to scale if you’re trying to hit hundreds of cities… your best bet is to create amazing content that’s a gazillion times better than your competitors, and make sure you get tons of links, so that regardless of location, Google sees you guys as the clear #1 authority.

And there’s no possible way that you have 1000 quality citation sites – there simply aren’t that many, regardless of your niche… but as far as how long it takes for them to show up, it’s based more off of how long it takes for those sites to update. Some citation sites only update their database every few months, so it could be 60-90 days before your citation shows up there. Then, once they’re all live, Google has to crawl them. So, there’s no set answer as to how long that all takes…

Thanks for the MnSearch Summit shout out. This is a great list you’ve put together. I’ve been to most of them and the ones I’ve been to are fantastic.

Cheers!

The most straightforward way to implement this decoy marketing experiment into your conversion optimization strategy is to always offer 3 options to your customers on a specials page or a landing page for sales or service. For the case you’re suggesting, an idea might be:

Option 1: $25,000 – Jeep Cherokee
Option 2: $30,000 – Jeep Cherokee (decoy offer)
Option 3: $30,000 – Jeep Cherokee + 1 year of free car wash

Like I said before and in the post, this all requires testing to see what sticks. Can’t wait to hear how it goes.

The utilization of a useless price, or decoy offer, has the potential to be effective at one-price stores, but not in the same way. Typically, there is very little (if any) flexibility on pricing or special offers at one-price stores, so offering another incentive is not an option. The experiment I suggested won’t work the same way, but I might have a solution. It’s a lot easier for a customer to say no to one option, than it would be to three.

For example, offer them:

Option 1: $15,000 for Kia Sportage in very popular color
Option 2: $15,000 for Kia Sportage in not so great color
Option 1: $15,000 for Kia Sportage demo vehicle with a few thousand miles

The goal is to have them drive off the lot with one of those (and you don’t care which one), so for the customer to see the options all priced the same, they are more likely to select one vs. the alternative of simply saying no to one choice.

Of course, test, test, and test to determine the best pairings.

Amir, would venture to say that incorporating a “useless” price would have more impact and effectiveness when incorporated in with a one price strategy?

Way to go! Congrats on the recognition of your hard work!

Brady

We here at bobbsaysyes.com look forward to working together.